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THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 

 Series B. Vol. 79. No. B 532. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. 



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On the Pathology of the Dropsy produced by Obstruction of the Superior 

 and Inferior Venae Cavae and the Portal Vein. — Preliminary Communica- 

 tion. By CHARLES BOLTON, M.D., Assistant Physician to University 

 College Hospital . . 267 



The Influence of Increased Barometric Pressure on Man. No. 3. — The 

 Possibility of Oxygen Bubbles being set free in the Body. By LEONARD 

 HILL, F.R.S., and M. GREENWOOD, Jun., M.R.C.S., Research Scholar 

 of the British Medical Association ....... 284 



The Inheritance of Flower Colour in Antirrhinum majus. By Miss 

 M. WHELDALE, Assistant Lecturer in Botany and late Bathurst Student, 

 Newnham College, Cambridge. (Plate 4) 288 



Longitudinal Symmetry in Phanerogamia. By PERCY GROOM, M.A., D.Sc, 



F.L.S. (Abstract) 305 



The Estimation of Chloroform in the Blood of Anaesthetised Animals. By 

 G. A. BUCKMASTER, Assistant Professor of Physiology, University 

 College, University of London, and J. A. GARDNER, Lecturer on 

 Physiological Chemistry, University of London ..... 3°° 



Cyanogenesis in Plants. Part VI. — On Phaseolunatin and the Associated 

 Enzymes in Flax, Cassava, and the " Lima Bean." By Professor 

 WYNDHAM R. DUNSTAN, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., T. A. HENRY, D.Sc. 

 (Lond.), and S. J. M. AULD, Ph.D. (Wiirzburg) . . . . . 3«5 



Capillary Electrometer Records of the Electrical Changes during the Natural 

 Beat of the Frog's Heart. (Preliminary Communication.) By FRANCIS 

 GOTCH, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 323 



The Fermentation of Glucosides by Bacteria of the Typhoid-coli Group and 

 the Acquisition of New Fermenting Powers by Bacillus dysenteriae and 

 other Micro-organisms. Preliminary Communication. By F. W. TWORT, 

 M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. . ........ 32a 



On Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic Muscles. — Tenth Note. By 



C. S. SHERRINGTON, D.Sc, F.R.S. . . . . . . 337 



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